ArmInfo.Over a thousand fans of Russian rock music gathered in Tsaghkadzor for the EPIC Rock Fest festival, which was held August 12-13 in the open air. The most popular rock musicians of Armenia participated in the festival, including Gore Sujyan, EMPIRAY, Vostan Hayots, Dogma, Mad Paradox, Nemra, Fairwind, The Windrose.

ArmInfo.The artistic director and chief conductor of the State Youth Orchestra of Armenia, Sergei Smbatyan, will speak at the opening and closing of the Eurasian musical games. This event will be held from 15 to 25 August in the capital of Kazakhstan - Astana. The symphony orchestra of the State Academic Philharmonic of the Akimat of the city of Astana will perform headed by Maestro Smbatyan.

ArmInfo.As part of the tourism development program, Iran has allocated $ 370,000 for the restoration of churches registered in UNESCO World Heritage List. This was stated by the deputy head of the Organization of Cultural Heritage, Crafts and Tourism Mohammad-Hassan Talebian during his visit to the Armenian monastery of St. Thaddeus.

ArmInfo. By order of Armenian Minister of Culture Armen Amiryan Konstantin Orbelian was appointed director of the National Academic Opera and Ballet Theater named after Alexander Spendiaryan. The Ministry of Culture informed ArmInfo
about this.

ArmInfo. The young artist, Mikael Gevorgyan (Misha), will represent Armenia at the international contest of Junior Eurovision Song Contest in 2017, who last year won second place for participation in Children's New Wave 2016 contest . Misha is a member of "Voice of Artsakh" group, who captured the hearts of the audience with his song Little Karabakh.

ArmInfo. Civil Art sociocultural organization held the Sail of Hope 2017 Festival with support from Beeline on July 14-16 at Vishap beach near Shorja community, Gegharkunik marz. During the festival, Beeline Armenia CEO Andrey Pyatakhin was awarded a certificate of gratitude for supporting the Sail of Hope 2017 Festival of singing and songwriting.

ArmInfo.Yet another year added to the history of the Yerevan film fest. The 14th “Golden Apricot” will be remembered for the variety of included events, renowned cinema personalities and guests, as well as diversity of genres of the screened films. Winners have already received the awards; new stars added on the Charles Aznavour Square now pay tribute to film directors Frunze Dovlatyan, Yuri Yerznkyan, and cinematographer Sergey Israyelyan. The favorite festival will come up with a jubilee program next year.

ArmInfo. "It's a great pleasure for me to be in this stage where the best artists always play. I'm thankful to my good friend Maestro Sergey Smbatyan for giving me this
opportunity to be on this stage together with the State Youth
Orchestra of Armenia",-said Maxim Vengerov, the world famous
violinist to the audience and he received a standing ovation
yesterday evening. The artist was in Yerevan to perform for the
gala-concert of Armenia International Music Festival and Competition.

ArmInfo. On July 14 at 19.00 in the big hall of Moscow cinema within the framework of the fourteenth international film festival Golden Apricot Yerevan premiere of the
documentary Tatyana Danilyants Six musicians and the City will take place.

ArmInfo.Wih the traditional apricot blessing ceremony and with the opening of the stars of prominent Armenian directors started “Golden Apricot” Yerevan International Film Festival, one of the most anticipated cultural events of the year. For one week, July 9-16, Yerevan will live and breathe cinema.

ArmInfo. In 2016, 41 cultural projects were implemented in Armenia, including in the international format, Armenian Minister of Culture Armen Amiryan announced at the
budget hearings in the Armenian Parliament.

ArmInfo.World famous violinist Maxim Vengerov will perform together with the State Youth Orchestra of Armenia, headed by conductor Sergey Smbatyan. The concert will be held on July 12 at Aram Khachaturian concert hall at the gala concert
of the Armenia International Festival and Competition.

ArmInfo.On September 21, 2018, an exhibition devoted to the history and peculiarities of Armenian culture will be held at the Metropolitan Cultural Center in New York. Curator of the cultural center Helen Evans reported this.

ArmInfo.The next performance of the ballet "Gayane" in the National Academic Opera and Ballet Theater of Armenia failed on the eve just before the performance. A few minutes before the beginning of the show, it turned out that some of the musicians of the orchestra do not intend to enter the stage.

ArmInfo. With the support of Beeline, Aram Khachaturian House- Museum hosted a concert with the participation of scholars from the Foundation for the Development of Classical Music, who made special progress this season. This is stated in the company's official announcement.

ArmInfo. Legendary Chansonnier Charles Aznavour celebrates his 93th anniversary Charles Aznavour, born Shahnour Vaghinag Aznavourian is a French, later naturalised Armenian, singer, songwriter, actor, public activist and diplomat. Aznavour is known for his unique tenorvoice: clear and ringing in its upper reaches, with gravelly and profound low notes. He has written over 1300 songs and recorded over 1,400, sung in eight languages and sold more than 180 million records.